Striking COVID-19 Lockdown Images From Around the World
David Foxley
·3 min read
“It’s like something out of a movie” has been an oft-repeated refrain in the weeks and months since the COVID-19 outbreak upturned the lives of the hundreds of millions in its wake. Perhaps nothing throws that sentiment into sharper relief than real-time images of the world’s most trafficked locales—main thoroughfares, train stations, park playgrounds, urban squares, and, of course, restaurants, offices, concert venues, and places of worship. There is little the coronavirus has not closed, canceled, indefinitely postponed, or moved online, and nowhere is that more evident than in the shared spaces that define communities. Yet as visually striking as these images of empty public places are, it is on the front lines—where everyday heroes show up day after day in hospitals, post offices, fire stations, restaurant kitchens, grocery stores, and farms—that the impact of this disease is most emotionally palpable.
How this pandemic will change our lives is far from clear. What is almost certain, though, is that the ways we gather will never be quite the same. Snapped around the world—from a desolate central shopping street in Cairo to Rome’s Piazza Navona, where even the pigeons appear to have fled—these images offer a stark, cinematic view of the impact of the coronavirus on our landmarks as well as our lives.
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